{The Mahdi}[11th April 1991]

[Redbook9:78][19910411:1858]{The Mahdi}[11th April 1991]

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‘The end of the world will be announced by the coming of the Mahdī (literally, “the directed or guided one”) – a messianic figure who will appear in the last days and is not found in the Qur’ān but developed out of Shī’ah speculations and [is] sometimes identified with Jesus. The Mahdī will slay the Dajjāl, the one-eyed evil spirit, and combat the dangerous enemies, Yājūj and Mājūj,** who will come from the north of the earth. The trumpet of Isrāfīl, one of the four archangels, will awaken the dead for the day of resurrection, which is many thousands of years long and the name of which has come to designate a state of complete confusion and turmoil.’***

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*(Took [d] & [s] for their first swimming lesson today)

**(Gog & Magog, presumably)

└→ Ez[e]k[iel] 38-39;

R[e]v[elations] 20)

VII [[Redbook7:341][19900928:1605]{Calculations of Redemption}[28th September 1990]]: 341;

II [[Redbook2:158-160][19791123:1850]{Religious Prophecy}[23rd November 1979]]: 158B-C

***{cf [[Redbook9:88][19910413:1056d]{Mahdis}[13th April 1991],] 88,

[[Redbook9:95][19910413:1056#]{The Expected Mahdi}[13th April 1991],] 95}

****– ibid. [Encyclopaedia Britannica 22:] 40

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